NATURAL WAYS TO RELIEVE STRESS

STRESS – LIVE YOUR LIFE WITHOUT THIS MENACE

Stress can come from any situation or thought that makes you feel frustrated or anxious. What is worrying for one person is not essentially stressful to another. Anxiety is a normal feeling and in small doses can eventually cause stress.

Stress does not affect everyone the same way. Many people feel stress symptoms as some form of discomfort or pain in their body. Stress and anxiety could be triggered by the need to adapt or change, illness or injury to you or a friend or a loved one; feelings of stress and anxiety are common in people who feel depressed and sad.

When these feelings happen often, a person may be suffering from an anxiety disorder. Other stress-related symptoms could be caused by Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Post-traumatic stress disorders etc.

Some drugs may cause or worsen symptoms of stress, including some inhaler medicines to treat asthma, thyroid drugs, some diet pills and some cold remedies. Caffeine, cocaine, alcohol and tobacco may cause or worsen the symptoms of stress.

NATURAL WAYS TO RELIEVE STRESS

The techniques that relieve stress are not same for everyone. We will endeavor to explain a few in this article.

LIFESTYLE CHANGES: Making certain lifestyle changes is the best start: a well-balanced healthy diet, getting enough sleep and exercise, limiting caffeine and alcohol intake and avoiding nicotine, cocaine or other street drugs.

Balancing fun activities with your job and family duties, scheduling some leisure time every day and spending time with people you enjoy, including your family, is worth the effort. Learning to make handmade objects, or an instrument or listening to music, could also lessen stress.

Thinking about what might be giving you stress and keeping a diary of what is going on when you have these feelings, as well as talking to friends, loved ones, groups and hotlines, is advisable.

Visiting a healthcare practitioner to find out whether the medication that you are taking might be causing stress is recommended; especially should you have suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, dizziness, rapid breathing, racing heartbeat, uncontrollable fears and memories of traumatic events.

Finding healthy and enjoyable ways to manage stress help most people as does practicing ways to help you relax, like yoga, tai chi or meditation.

MEDITATION – A MAGICAL REMEDY

Meditation often involves an internal effort to self-regulate the mind in some way and is often used to clear the mind and ease many health issues, such as high blood pressure, gloominess and apprehension.

Meditation has a calming effect and directs awareness inward until pure awareness is achieved, described as “being awake inside without being aware of anything except awareness itself”.

There are dozens of detailed styles and types of meditation that one can use.

Brainwave Entrainment is one meditation practice, which refers to the electrical activity in the brain being changed depending on what the person is hearing. Changing the brain wave patterns through the frequency rate of the pulses guides your mind to various useful mental states.

Brain waves are very much related to your mental state – for example, 4Hz, which is associated with sleep, would help reproduce the sleep state in your brain.Anxious people tend to produce an overabundance of high Beta waves while people with ADD/ADHD tend to produce an overabundance of slower Alpha/Theta brainwaves.

Brainwaves represent one’s mental state and they can be stimulated to change a person’s mental state and, in turn, this can help with a variety of mental issues. Brainwave entrainment refers to the brain’s electrical response to rhythmic sensory stimulus, such as rhythms of sound or luminosity.

When the brain is presented with a rhythmic stimulus – such as a drumbeat – the rhythm is reproduced in the brain in the form of electrical impulses and the faster the rhythm becomes (maintaining consistency) it can start to resemble the natural internal rhythms of the brain.

Brainwave Entrainment uses audio recordings with headphones or earphones – although there are schools of practice that do not necessarily use headphones. The listener will often hear soundscapes such as rainfall, forest streams, Tibetan Bells, singing bowls, while some will include ambient music.

The sounds which you hear do not create Brainwave Entrainment. The entrainment is created by inaudible frequency tones or pulses embedded in the sounds. The soothing sound that you hear masks the actual carrier tones or pulses.

THE CURE FOR STRESS – NATURAL AND MIRACULOUS

Meditation, brainwave entrainment or binaural beats are natural procedures that can help you erase any level of stress without the need to use medication. Stress usually causes depression and insomnia, therefore it is important to keep your soul and conscience happy, hence the need for meditation.

Entrainment is recently being touted as one of the best ways to deal with insomnia, and binaural beats form the basis for entrainment.

You can use all these remedies together or separately depending on your needs, but you will need to try and experiment a few times before you are sure of your choice.

What you can be sure of; however, is that these natural remedies will not only obliterate stress but will also make you more at ease with yourself and your surroundings, without even using a single pill.

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WHAT IS BRAINWAVE ENTRAINMENT ALL ABOUT?

These carrier tones and pulses are called binaural beats & Isochronic tones. They are 2 vibrating or oscillating systems. When they interact with each other they synchronize and this synchronization is what creates whole brain functioning and thereby an inner environment for you to produce and experience peak performance.

Discovered by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove in 1839, it is now widely used in the 20th century to help people loosen up, meditate, deal with pain, lessen anxiety and be more imaginative.

You will be listening to 2 slightly different pitched frequencies – each frequency goes to your ears independently and your brain responds by creating a 3rd tone, making up the difference between the 2 frequencies. This shift in frequency then shifts your brain’s consciousness and changes your state.

Binural tones have been thoroughly tested and researched; the Brainwave Entrainment technologies of today are scientifically proven to be effective, having a powerful result on people’s psychological, physical and emotional health and comfort. Change is possible with no will power required!

Isochronic Tones are a powerful advancement in the field of Brainwave Entrainment. They are computer-generated, musically pulsed beats that securely, gently and successfully guide and entrain your brain to the most optimal brainwave frequencies.

These tones need to be audible, heard with the music in the brainwaves to achieve the desired state rapidly. Headphones are not essential, although they are often recommended.

When Brainwave Entrainment is used as a natural method to relieve stress and anxiety, it would be best to start off by listening to Brainwave Entrainment audios for 30 minutes a day and then, after 90 days, when your brain is entrained, you may listen to 22 minutes twice a day.

When you listen daily for a period of time, you are training your brain. After a period of time, you seem to be able to reach those areas of your brain at will to perform functions that you would not have been able to do before. It is most beneficial to get into a routine and listen either at night before bed or just upon waking in the morning.

In order to reap benefit from Brainwave Entrainment one must be above 17 years of age, not suffering from epilepsy or be wearing a pacemaker; and certainly not be pregnant.

In general, it is a good self-help and self-actualization method for folk who suffer from stress. The practice is beneficial right from the first time and within days you will experience deep relaxation and stress reduction.

You will cope better with work, think more clearly and generally feel more contented with life. You will feel more connected with your environment and feel and appear to be more at harmony, grounded and balanced.

As your Brainwave Entrainment practice develops and your Left and Right Brain are being entrained to communicate with each other more effectively, you will experience increased physical, mental and emotional well-being.

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